Center for InterAmerican Studies

Charla con Dr. Mario Soto "Medios, educación y revitalización del quechua" (17.06.2026)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:16:44 +0200

Dr. Mario Soto Rodríguez (Universität Freiburg) presenta "Medios, educación y revitalización del quechua: entre diglosia cultural y rescate lingüístico".

Miércoles, 17 junio 2026, 10:15 – 11:45, Edifico X X-E1-200.

Buscamos propiciar una discusión sobre la preferencia por prácticas comunicativas de un modelo discursivo que promueve patrones discursivos occidentales de la lengua y cultura dominante, frente a una tarea de revitalización que debería integrar y visibilizar perspectivas filosóficas y culturales andinas.

Organiza: Prof. Dr. Miguel Gutiérrez Maté

Jornada Híbrida: El terror en Latinoamérica. La colonialidad del género del miedo a revisión (11.06.26)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:17:27 +0200

Invitamos a toda la comunidad académica a participar en esta jornada sobre las narrativas del terror en América Latina, tanto a nivel literario como cinematográfico y de otros medios.

L-s ponentes discutirán las estrategias narrativas, revisiones del género, concepciones del terror, la (ir)realidad del terror, replanteamientos y críticas de tradiciones coloniales del género.

Jornada Híbrida:

El terror en Latinoamérica: La colonialidad del género del miedo a revisión.

11.06.26 | B2-212, Universidad de Bielefeld | 14:00 -20:30 y en Zoom: Meeting-ID: 666 1000 3677; Passwort: 044632

Organización: Prof. Dr. Joachim Michael

Más información y programa

Luisa Raquel Ellermeier presents at InterAmerican Studies Colloquium (16 June 2026)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:11:02 +0200

The Center for InterAmerican Studies is pleased to invite you to the next session of the InterAmerican Studies Colloquium. Luisa Raquel Ellermeier (Bielefeld University) will present: Alterity on the Road: Human and Nonhuman Others in Inter-American Road Movies.

This talk examines mobility, space, and relationality across the Americas, and offers new perspectives on the cultural and political dimensions of the road movie genre.

📅 16 June 2026 🕕 18:00–20:00 📍 Room X-E0-226, Bielefeld University

We warmly welcome students, colleagues, and all those interested in Inter-American Studies, film and media studies, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary research. For further information, please see CIAS.

InterAmerican Studies Colloquium with María Herrera Cárdenas (9.6.2026)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Thu, 4 Jun 2026 11:08:33 +0200

We are pleased to invite you to the next session of the InterAmerican Studies Colloquium with Dr. María Herrera Cárdenas (Bielefeld University). Her talk "Affective Distress and the Politics of Legibility: Gender, Medicalization, and Care in Europe and Mexico" explores the intersections of gender, medicalization, care, and affective distress across European and Mexican contexts, offering critical insights into contemporary debates in feminist, literary, and medical humanities research.

📅 9 June 2026

🕕 18:00–20:00

📍 Room X-E0-226

Dr. María Herrera Cardenas is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bielefeld University, specializing in Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). Her research contributes to developing gendered medical violence as an analytical category to examine how institutional medical practices produce harm and how contemporary literature generates forms of epistemic repair and feminist counter-knowledge.

Information about the colloquium here.

Musical Exhibition: Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn (1805–1847) - 21 May 2026, ZiF

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:57:56 +0200

As part of the UNAM Alemania Cultural and Artistic Project 2026, an exceptional evening dedicated to the composer Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn will take place on 21 May 2026 from 19:00 to 21:00. The concert combines live piano performance with video projection and offers audiences a unique encounter with the artistic legacy of one of the most remarkable yet historically overlooked composers of the 19th century.

The internationally renowned Mexican concert pianist Monique Rasetti will present a carefully researched and historically informed interpretation of Hensel-Mendelssohn’s works. Drawing on archival studies and her experience with period instruments, Rasetti seeks to recover and disseminate part of the composer’s pianistic legacy while creating connections between music, poetry, and visual arts. The project also reflects on the historical marginalization of women composers and highlights the importance of integrating Hensel-Mendelssohn’s work into contemporary academic and artistic discourse.

The event will feature contributions by:

Monique Rasetti

Yolanda I Chirino

Wilfried Raussert

The concert is organized in collaboration with ZiF, UNAM-Alemania, CIAS, CALAS, and the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

Participation is free of charge.

Date: 21 May 2026 Time: 19:00–21:00

For registration and further information.

IAS Kolloquium mit AStA und CALAS "Mapuche-Bewegung in Konflikten" (19.5.2026)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:42:59 +0200

Das IAS-Kolloquium in Kooperation mit dem Referat für Internationales der AStA Uni Bielefeld und CALAS veranstalten gemeinsam einen Vortrag mit anschließender Diskussion.

"Mapuche-Bewegung in Konflikten: Herausforderungen, Konflikte und Vorschläge nach dem chilenischen Verfassungsprozess"

Dienstag 19. Mai 2026 von 18 bis 20 Uhr in Raum S1-209, Hauptgebäude.

Vortragende: Olaf Kaltmeier (Universität Bielefeld) Fernando Pairican (CIIR Universidad Católica Chile).

Spanische Information auf www.uni-bielefeld.de/cias/veranstaltungen

ENAC Film Showcase 2026 (IAS Colloquium 5 May 2026)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:41:44 +0200

Im Rahmen der Kooperation zwischen UNAM-Alemania, dem CIAS, HIAS Bielefeld, und dem Kolloquium für InterAmerikanische Studien werden ausgewählte Kurzfilme der ENAC (UNAM) Produktion 2025 präsentiert und kommentiert. Für das Ereignis sind Vertreter*innen der UNAM und Kommentator*innen seitens der Universität Bielefeld vor Ort.

18:15-20:00 Raum X-E0-226, Gebäude X

PANELISTS: Luisa Raquel Ellermeier MA, Prof. Dr. Wilfried Raussert, Benjamín Romero MA

MODERATION: Dr. Yolanda Irasema Chirino López

Im Anschluss erfolgte eine Rezeption mit Umtrunk in der BGHS Lounge. Studierende und Dozent*innen sind in beiden Events herzlich willkommen.

InterAmerican Studies Colloqium with Prof. Maria Fernanda Lopez Sandoval (FLACSO Quito), 14 April 2026

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Thu, 9 Apr 2026 10:29:17 +0200

The IAS Colloquium for this semester will kick off next Tuesday, April 14, 2026 (6–8 p.m.), with a lecture by our visiting scholar from Ecuador, Prof. Dr. Maria Fernanda Lopez Sandoval (FLACSO Quito) titled:

“Rethinking the Anthropocene as an Analytical Framework to Understand Land Use Change and Human-Driven Frontiers in the Tropical Andean Páramo.”

The event will take place in cooperation with the Colloquium on Global and Entangled History in Room X E0-226 in the X Building.

For more details please visit CIAS.

Info-Abend: Trump-Intervention und aktuelle Lage in Lateinamerika (07.03.2026)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Thu, 5 Mar 2026 18:26:20 +0100

Am 7. März 2026 (19:00 Uhr) findet in der Lydia-Gemeinde ein Info-Abend mit dem Titel:

"Trump-Intervention und aktuelle Lage in Lateinamerika"

statt. Die Referent*innen Olaf Kaltmeier, Omar Sierra Cháves, Alexandra Castañeda Obando, Josué García Veiga (alle Universität Bielefeld) analysieren die aktuelle Lage in Mexiko, Venezuela, Kuba und Kolumbien. Die Veranstaltung wird mit Empanadas und Wein begleitet und der Erlös geht an humanitäre Hilfe auf Kuba.

Ort: Lydia-Gemeinde, Johanniskirchpl. 1, 33615 Bielefeld

InterAmerican Studies Colloquium with Johannes Völz on 20.1.2026

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:04:00 +0100

We cordially invite to the next talk of our IAS colloquium series on Tuesday, 20th of January 2026 (6–8 pm, Room X-E0-226). Johannes Völz (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) will give a lecture titled:

“Trump and the Populist Space of Appearance: On the Rally as Political Form”

This presentation examines the political rally as a key aesthetic and performative form of contemporary populism. Focusing on Donald Trump, Johannes Völz analyzes how rallies create a “space of appearance” in which populist politics becomes visible, affective, and collective. The talk situates the rally within broader debates on democratic representation, political aesthetics, and the cultural forms through which populism mobilizes publics.

Johannes Völz is Professor of American Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. He is the spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group “Aesthetics of Democracy” (GRK 3113) and co-directs the research focus “Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World” at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Frankfurt. He is the author of Poetics of Insecurity: American Fiction and the Uses of Threat (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and is currently working on a book project on the aesthetics of populism.

Roundtable Discussion: U.S. Imperialism Reloaded: Latin American Reflections (20 Jan 2026)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:46:22 +0100

On 20 January, AStA Bielefeld in cooperation with CIAS and CALAS invites to a Roundtable Discussion: U.S. Imperialism Reloaded: Latin American Reflections

with

OLAF KALTMEIER (Bielefeld University)

OMAR SIERRA CHÁVES (Bielefeld University, VENEZUELA)

ALEXANDRA CASTAÑEDA OBANDO (Bielefeld University, COLOMBIA)

JOSUÉ GARCÍA VEIGA (Bielefeld University, MEXICO)

The attack against Venezuela has greater geopolitical implications. We face the rupture of a multilateral world-order and the reinvention of imperial conducts and narratives. In inter-American relations these have a long history going back to the Monroe-Doctrine. In this round-table we offer a unique interpretation from different Latin American perspectives.

16:00-17:30, in H5 (Main Building), Open to the public.

InterAmerican Studies Colloquium with Astrid Haas (16 December)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:30:15 +0100

We cordially invite you to the next talk of our IAS-colloquium series. On Tuesday, 16 December (6 pm c.t., Room X E0-226), Astrid Haas from the University of Bergen speaks about:

Drawing Resistance in the Borderlands: Fighting Trumpsim and Transborder Violence in/with the Peso Hero Comic Series.

The lecture analyzes how the Mexican American comic series El Peso Hero uses the genre of the superhero comic to offer a political critique of the border politics of the two Trump presidencies targeting Latin American immigrants. It also discusses how Latine comics like the Peso Hero series can offer cultural resistance to the growing violence of both law enforcement officers and criminal cartels affecting residents and migrants in the US-Mexico border region.

Astrid Haas is an Associate Professor in American Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen. Her research interests include, a.o., Transnational North American Studies, Border Studies, and the Black and Latinx Diasporas. Her most recent book is titled Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861 (2021). She currently works on two larger projects, “Black Inter-American Mobility and Autobiography in the Age of Revolutions, 1760-1860” and “LatineGraphy: Latine Pasts, Presents, and Futures in US Latine and Latin American Graphic Narratives.”

InterAmerican Studies Colloquium with Martin Lüthe (2.12.2025)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Mon, 1 Dec 2025 09:56:07 +0100

We cordially invite you to the next talk of our IAS-colloquium series. On Tuesday, 2nd of December (6 pm c.t., Room X E0-226),

Martin Lüthe (Freie Universität Berlin) will lead a lecture on the topic:

Of NYC and DJT: Hip Hop Music and the (Un-)Making of Donald J. Trump.

This presentation examines how 1990s hip hop culture contributed to the public construction of Donald Trump’s persona—long before his political ascent. Hip hop culture in the 1990s (arguably) brought to the cultural fore a more general obsession with Donald Trump (no “J” back then). Trump embodied a certain dog-eat-dog capitalist ethos that much of so-called gangsta rap came to be known (and blamed) for during the 1990s — and, of course, Trump embodied New York City, hip hop music’s birthplace. In this talk, Lüthe aspires to answer questions pertaining to Trump’s “street cred”: What does this “making” of Trump signify, how is it entangled with his contemporary political moment, and how has it changed in the context of Trump’s political (un-)making?

Martin Lüthe is currently an associate professor/lecturer at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universitaet Berlin and Einstein Junior Fellow. Lüthe published the monographs “We Missed a Lot of Church, So the Music Is Our Confessional”: Rap and Religion (Lit Verlag, 2008) and "Color-Line and Crossing-Over: Motown and Performances of Blackness in 1960s American Culture" (WVT, 2011). Lüthe finished his second dissertation, the German Habilitation, with a manuscript on "Wire Writing: Media Change in the Culture of the Progressive Era" in February 2025. Lüthe is a member of the editorial board of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture and is working on a book manuscript entitled "The Beautiful Digital Game: A Cultural History of Soccer Video Games".

InterAmerican Studies Colloquium with Martin Lutz (25.11.2025)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:57:35 +0100

We cordially invite to the next talk of our colloquium series. On Tuesday, 25th of November (6 pm c.t., Room X E0-226), Martin Lutz (Universität Bielefeld) will be leading a lecture with the title:

The Politics of Religion: What the Anabaptist Case Can Teach us About the Political Landscape in the Americas.

This lecture explores how religion shapes political imaginaries and practices across the Americas by revisiting the historical experience of the Anabaptist movement. Drawing on its principles of community, dissent, and resistance to state authority, Martin Lutz examines what the Anabaptist case can reveal about contemporary political dynamics, faith-based mobilization, and the complex relationship between religion and democracy in the hemisphere.

Martin Lutz is Professor of History of Modern Societies at Bielefeld University. His research combining social, economic, and business history bridges specializations, subjects, regions, and theories, and includes work on globalization; religion and modern capitalism; Germany, North America, and Russia/the Soviet Union; and institutional theory. This research is focused on understanding how actors and institutions interact to shape historical change, and combines study of the social, political, economic, and cultural influences on capitalism and society. These themes have been a consistent yet evolving research interest since the start of Lutz’ career, and are reflected in my publications on the transnational history of Siemens, German-Soviet economic relations during the Weimar Republic, Anabaptist (Mennonite/Amish/Hutterite) religion and socio-economic development in North America, moral economy and—most recently—on German-Soviet/Russian energy relations at the end of the Cold War. He contributes to the field, the academy, and the public through service on cross-disciplinary university committees, working groups, and engagement with media outlets, including periodicals, TV, and radio.

For further information, please visit our website.

InterAmerican Studies Colloquium - Julia Roth (18.11.2025)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:50:33 +0100

The CIAS is cordialy inviting to the second talk of this semester's colloquium series. On Tuesday, 18th of November (6 pm c.t., Room X E0-226), Julia Roth (Universität Bielefeld) will be leading a lecture on the topic: Revitalizando el estado masculinista: El género como campo de batalla en el discurso autoritario del gobierno de Trump y sus aliados latinoamericanos.

The lecture examines how issues surrounding gender rights, gender, and the demonization of so-called “gender ideology” are being exploited in the discourse of the authoritarian right, and how ‘gender’ has become a central battleground in the current “conjuncture” (Hall). As an affective bridge and symbolic glue, the demonization of the “phantom” of gender (Butler) mobilizes and channels fears, distracts from structural inequalities and crises, and revitalizes the ‘retrotopic’ (Bauman) desire for supposedly simple answers, strong leaders, and a “masculinist state” (Sauer).

Dr. Julia Roth is currently teaching American Studies at Bielefeld University, where she was also director of the Center for Interamerican Studies (CIAS) and PI at the DFG Graduate School “Experiencing Gender”. Previously, she was Professor of American Studies with a focus on Gender Studies and Inter-American Studies in Bielefeld and postdoctoral fellow in the research project "The Americas as Space of Entanglements" in Bielefeld and in the interdisciplinary network "desiguALdades.net - Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America" at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on postcolonial, decolonial and gender approaches, intersectionality and global inequalities, anti-racist feminist knowledge from the Caribbean and the Americas, Hip Hop and social transformation, gender and genre, law and literature and legal imaginaries, gender and citizenship, and right-wing populism and gender.

Internationale Konferenz: Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History (14.-15.11.2025)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:55:05 +0100

Wir möchten Sie sehr herzlich zur Konferenz zum Thema „Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global and Planetary“ einladen, die der Profilbereich Global und Verflechtungsgeschichte, in Kooperation mit dem CrossArea-Verband, CALAS, und CIAS organisiert. Die Konferenz wird am 14. /15. November in Bielefeld, im X-Gebäude (X-E0-002) stattfinden und die methodischen und konzeptionellen Herausforderungen der Global- und Verflechtungsgeschichte im planetarischen Zeitalter reflektieren.

Informationen und Programm finden Sie hier.

Die Konferenz findet in Präsenz statt, eine Zuschaltung per Zoom ist aber auch möglich.

Freitag, 14.11.25: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/69952809553?pwd=JfF77OP30NZWRbkDHKW2QbKtExnViG.1

Samstag, 15.11.25: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/63983696786?pwd=oBVMyuuerKPn2Qzdz6jGQoJC47xwCf.1

Buchpräsentation: Dekoloniale Theorien zur Einführung (11.11.2025)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:57:44 +0100

Was bedeutet es, Wissen, Geschichte und Macht aus einer dekolonialen Perspektive zu denken? Die Autoren Frederik Schulze und Philipp Wolfesberger stellen ihr neues Buch Dekoloniale Theorien zur Einführung (Junius Verlag, 2025) vor und diskutieren gemeinsam mit Ragna Verhoeven zentrale Konzepte, historische Bezüge und aktuelle Debatten der dekolonialen Theorie.

🗓 Dienstag, 11. November | 19:30 Uhr 📍 mondo buchhandlung, Elsa-Brändström-Straße 23, Bielefeld 💡 Eintritt frei

Ein Abend für alle, die sich für kritische Theorie, Globalgeschichte und antikoloniale Perspektiven interessieren.

Mehr Information hier.

Buchbesprechung im Theorieblog

The InterAmerican Studies Colloquium – Winter Term 2025/26 starts on November 4!

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:12:34 +0100

We are pleased to invite you to the first session of the InterAmerican Studies Colloquium – Winter Term 2025/26.

Matti Steinitz and Philipp Wolfesberger share the talk:

“Trump 2.0 in Hemispheric Perspectives: Authoritarian Shift and Popular Response”.

🗓 November 4, 2025 | 🕕 18:00–20:00 (CET) 📍 Room X-E0-226, Bielefeld University

This opening lecture examines the current dynamics of political transformation across the Americas, focusing on the resurgence of authoritarian tendencies and the diverse popular responses they inspire. The session sets the tone for a semester of critical dialogue on democracy, power, and resistance from a hemispheric perspective.

InterAmerican Studies Colloquium MA-Thesis Lab (15.07.2025)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:34:04 +0200

The closing session of our InterAmerican Studies colloquium is dedicated to the presentation of MA-thesis projects. We will meet as usual on Tuesday, 15 July 2025 from 18 to 20hs (CET) at Bielefeld University, Main Building, Room V2-213 to discuss two presentations:

Diana Tada: "Contribuciones del Teatro Contemporáneo a la Paz: La Violencia contra la Población Civil en Escena, Colombia - Perú - México"

Diana studied Law and Literature Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia. She also studied Anthropological Theater as a research and artistic interest. Her current research interests focus on the body as an ethnographic field for literary representation and the use of theater to create a culture of peace. She has published in the field of human rights, focusing on forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions in Colombia. Playwright award: book Pasos. Other publications: The Abilities of the Body: A Study from the Theater. Narrating, Framing, Reflecting 'Disability', De Gruyter 2024.

Sebastian Peñaranda: "De la teología de la liberación y las ideologías de izquierda a la decolonialidad: La presencia de la religión católica en la música y poesía de Bolivia y Argentina "

Sebastian es licenciado en Ciencia Política y Gestión Pública en la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés de La Paz, Bolivia. Se encuentra realizando el M.A. en Estudios InterAmericanos en la Universidad de Bielefeld, Alemania. Sus intereses de investigación son: el giro decolonial, el rol político de la música social, los procesos de recuperación de la democracia en Bolivia y Latinoamérica y los saberes y resistencias de los pueblos indígenas.

InterAmerican Studies Colloquium with José Antonio Villareal (8 July 2025)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Thu, 3 Jul 2025 16:16:48 +0200

We are cordially inviting to our next IAS colloquium on Tuesday, 8th of July 2025 from 18 to 20hs (CET) at Bielefeld University, Main Building, Room V2-213.

José Antonio Villareal (FLACSO Ecuador) will present his work on "Mapping up the Plebeian Experience: Leadership, Political Agency, and Statecraft Process in Guayaquil-Ecuador From 1960 to Present Days".

José Antonio Villarreal Velásquez holds a PhD in History from Bielefeld University and a Master in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Ecuador. He is an Associate Professor at FLACSO, Ecuador in the Departments of Sociology and Gender Studies. He is the former director of the Institute of Democracy (IDD-Ecuador) and former academic co-manager of the Maria Sybilla Merian Advanced Center for Latin American Studies (CALAS). He has been a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Ecuador, and the University of Guadalajara-Mexico, taught post graduated seminars at the University of Chile and the Universities of Leipzig and Bielefeld and participated as a researcher in various interdisciplinary projects related to urban transformations, the configuration of socio-political processes and practices of the inhabitants of the popular sectors in Latin America and Ecuador. His publications and research interests are related to the fields of urban and political history, political ethnography, collective action and statecraft processes, among others.

CANCELED: Martín Bergel (University of Quilmes) at this week's InterAmerican Studies Colloquium (24.6.)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:59:43 +0200

Due to health issues of our speaker, we have to cancel today's colloquium. Sorry for the inconvenience.

We are cordially inviting you to our next IAS colloquium on Tuesday, 24th of June 2025 from 18 to 20hs (CET) at Bielefeld University, Main Building, Room V2-213.

Argentinian scholar Martín Bergel will speak about "Populism from below and from abroad: the early stages of Peruvian Aprismo (1921-1945)"

Martín Bergel is a researcher at CONICET (Argentina) and at the Center for Intellectual History at the University of Quilmes, where he directs the Master's program in Intellectual History. He is also a professor of Contemporary Latin American History at the Universidad de San Martín and the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University (2012) and at the Freie Universität Berlin (2015). Dr. Bergel was also Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS, 2019-2020); Mercator Fellow of the Global Intellectual History program at Freie Universität Berlin (2022); and George Forster Senior Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2023-2025). He has also been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo, the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, the University of Shanghai and El Colegio de México. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Seminar for the History of Ideas, Intellectuals and Culture “Oscar Terán” at the University of Buenos Aires. He is a member of the board of the yearbook Prismas. Revista de Historia Intelectual , and was between 2007 and 2018 of Políticas de la Memoria , yearbook of CeDInCI (Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierda). He directed the collective PICT research project “Intellectuals, Periodical Press and Globalization. The making of the public opinion on global issues (Buenos Aires, 1870-1940)”, and coordinates the research area "Perspectives on Latin America and Global History" at the Center for Latin American Studies of the UNSAM.

InterAmerican Studies Colloquium with Bieke Willem (Universität zu Köln) tomorrow 16.6.

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:20:42 +0200

Lxs invitamos cordialmente a nuestro próximo coloquio, el martes 17 de junio, esta semana excepcionalmente de 19 a 20.30hrs (CET). Universidad de Bielefeld, Edificio Principal - Salón: V2-213. Nuestra invitada Bieke Willem hablará sobre "Estética del paisaje, sujeto y colectividad en la literatura mexicana de la gran aceleración".

Bieke Willem es profesora asistente de literatura románica en la Universidad de Colonia. Recibió su doctorado en literatura de la Universidad de Gante en Bélgica en 2014. Antes de mudarse a Alemania, fue nombrada investigadora postdoctoral en la Universidad de California, Berkeley y como profesora asistente de literatura y cultura latinoamericana en la Universidad de Stockholm. Su investigación se centra en la literatura (fantástica) en francés y español, humanidades ambientales, afectos y estudios de memoria. Ella es la autora de El Espacio Narrativa en La Literatura Chilena Postdictatorial. Casas Hábitadas (Brill, 2016) y Agua Viva, Agua Muerta. Narrar el Antropoceno (Kipu, próximamente 2025).

Reading and discussion with Michel Nieva, InterAmerican Studies Colloquium (10.6.2025)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:09:27 +0200

We are cordially inviting you to our next IAS colloquium on Tuesday, 10th of June 2025 from 18 to 20hs (CET) at Bielefeld University, Main Building, Room V2-213 with Michel Nieva who reads and discusses

"Mundografías de la Infancia del Mundo"

Lxs invitamos cordialmente a nuestro próximo coloquio, el martes 10 de junio de 18 a 20hrs (CET). Universidad de Bielefeld, Edificio Principal - Salón: V2-213 con Michel Nieva, quien lee y presenta

"Mundografías de la Infancia del Mundo"
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Michel Nieva is a science fiction writer, teacher and PhD Candidate at New York University. He was selected by Granta in 2021 as one of the best young Spanish-language writers and received the O. Henry Award in 2022. His first novel translated to English, Dengue Boy, was published in 2025. The event is a cooperation with the lecture series SUR.

Dr. Martina Lasalle at the InterAmerican Studies Colloquium (3.6.2025)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:59:45 +0200

We are cordially inviting you to our next IAS colloquium on Tuesday, 3rd of June 2025 from 18 to 20hs (CET) at Bielefeld University, Main Building, Room V2-213. This year's CALAS Guest Professor Dr. Martina Lasalle (Universidad de Buenos Aires) will present her work "The drug problem as a penal problem: examining the role of criminal justice systems".

Martina Lassalle is a sociologist specializing in sociology of violence, crime and punishment. She is currently conducting postdoctoral research at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and also teaches sociological theory at the Sociology department of the University of Buenos Aires. Martina obtained a PhD in social sciences from the University of Buenos Aires in 2022. For the past years, she has participated in several funded research projects on crime and punishment in Latin America in the Gino Germani Research Institute at the University of Buenos Aires. Additionally, she has held research fellowships at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands (Scholarship Programme for Young Professors and Researchers From Coimbra Group of Universities), at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico and at the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Germany (DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service). She was also a visiting fellow at the University of Granada in 2023 and an adjunct associate research scholar at Columbia University in 2024. Martina’s research has focused on developing theoretical and empirical analyses of the selective functioning of criminal courts and their role in (re)producing hegemonic values and social meanings.

She is the author of the book “Killing is not always the same crime. A study on the differential punishment of murder in Argentina”, recently published by Fondo de Cultura Económica. This sociological study provides insights into the logics of criminalization of murder in Argentina, offering a comprehensive overview of penal sanctions and the social meanings and values that orient judicial decisions. More broadly, the book offers a critical reflection on the prohibition of murder in contemporary societies and explores the relationship between the pivotal ideological values of individual life and private property.

Currently, she is conducting sociological research on judicial responses to drug-related offenses in Argentina, focusing on criminalization processes affecting women. Her project aims to understand how the criminal justice system contributes to framing the drug problem as a penal issue, while examining the effects of the prohibitionist paradigm on exacerbating gender and class inequalities, increasing territorial violence and promoting social exclusion. Additionally, her research will explore and discuss alternative approaches to this problem.

Public Lectures: Decolonizing Gender as Experience (25-26 June 2025)

Center for InterAmerican Studies — Sun, 25 May 2025 12:09:49 +0200

The Research Training Group Gender as Experience – Constitution & Transformation of Social Modes of Existence organizes public lectures and a workshop to debate "Decolonizing Gender as Experience – Theoretical reflections and methodological implications". The international event takes place on 25 & 26 June 2025, in X Building, Room C3-107.

More information here.

Please register until 10 June at: filareti.karkalia@uni-bielefeld.de